The Tory party will never die
From our UK edition
A political party widely referred to as ‘the Tories’ has now existed – albeit with some rather serious discontinuities along the way – for just short of 350 years. The rise of Reform and apparently terminal decline of the Tories in the polls, Kemi Badenoch’s widely praised conference speech notwithstanding, has, however, made many start to think the hitherto unthinkable. Might the world’s oldest political party finally be on its way out? Could the Tories cease to be? The Tories’ current woes certainly appear to constitute their lowest ebb since 1906 or 1846, or even the mid-18th century The Tories’ current woes certainly appear to constitute their lowest ebb since 1906 or 1846, or even the mid-18th century.
